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Can you tell us a little more? What chassis? Are you wanting it to be exactly like the picture or just have a body that makes it look like one? What materials are you dealing with? Please tell us more.

You could use the E-Revo bulk and diff (being a sprint car lock the diff) with Slayer Pro arms, knuckles, pushrods, rockers, shocks and driveshafts. That could fix your diff and drive shaft problem, create a complete rear end and you know it's all going to fit together and work. You could also use the motor mount out of a slash with a dog bone straight to the rear diff. Making a layout to fit the build is going to be difficult let alone making the body, good luck mate.

Projects such as yours usually require custom parts that just are not available off the shelf.

Big plus +1 on that, Not tryin to say its impossible, but if you wanna make a scale RC model down to the last bolt, You better hope you have access to a machine shop and the skills/resources to even fab the parts. Not to mention the $$$ involved.

I could see getting some type of chassis platform set up and fabricating a body to look similar, but an actual scale model of it IMO will be a really tough task.

hey what would be the easiest way to mount and electric motor in the front of the car and run a driveshaft to the rear. also do you have any advice on a shock to run without a spring that has rebound and stiffness. I need the rear to be a straight up shock but act as if it has a spring.

Hibernating in my basement, trying to see just how many RC projects i can work on at one time!!

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You can run the electric motor up front using a transfer case. Or perhaps a tamiya 3 speed tranny may work for you. It uses a servo to do the shifting, so you would need at least a 3 channel radio. Not sure if this tranny would be fast enough or not. They are typically used in crawler or scale trucks. Also, if you want to have a shock that acts like a shock with no external springs, just put the springs on the inside of the shock body. You'll have to experiment a bit to see what fits. Lowe's carries different spring sizes that you could use depending on how heavy your car is. You have a lot of questions that can only be answered through trial and error. You might benefit from browsing scale forums, as there are a lot more builds like this found on those. Also you're going to need a solid front axle and there is nothing Traxxas makes that will help you. Try Rccrawler.com or Scale4x4.com. I'm sure there are oval track forums out there that could be of service as well. Best of luck. This looks cool! Anything can be done with time, tools, and $$$$$$$........

hey what would be the easiest way to mount and electric motor in the front of the car and run a driveshaft to the rear. also do you have any advice on a shock to run without a spring that has rebound and stiffness. I need the rear to be a straight up shock but act as if it has a spring.